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A BBS style forum is all well and good (don't get me wrong here, I like the forums), but it isn't everything.

Perhaps I don't have a life. Maybe I'm desperate for attention. Hell, I could be a lunatic and nobody here would either a) question it, or b) would never have guessed. But why is it that I've never seen a live chat room for Planescape? I've seen live chats for RPGs in general, but nothing for this setting. Posting letters is fine, but why should we have to wait for an answer through a posting system that requires us to refresh every so often to know if anything's been done when we could also have a live chat to help people work stuff out on the fly?

Doesn't it make sense as a community to have an area for rapid discussion for idea development that can be used as a sounding board for nebulous ideas rather than posting a draft and having someone tell you it's crap, or lacks balance after the fact?

What's the purpose of writing something out in detail only to have to scrap parts of it if you can have a sounding board of peers to help you cut out the chaff before ideas have any fruition. After all, you don't grow prize gardens without weeding and careful planning before hand.

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I think the idea is interesting

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Definatly. and I could even be used for the in character gameplay. Possibly.
Or not.
(Waves hands over head and runs off into the sunset)

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Last thing I want is a place where I'd have to compete for air time just to have a discussion on the writing process and creative endeavors for new materials for Planescape.

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Pardon my ignorance...

Do we not have a chat room here at Planewalker? If we do, and I just have missed it, perhaps a scheduled time for folks to come on would be a good idea.

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We don't have one at the moment, for a number of reasons.

First being that no one had indicated they wanted one, second that I would like to have someone around to watch over it fairly often to avoid anything blowing up in it or random spammers, and third because I'm right now working on other coding projects.

It's been noted as something people would be interested in, it may just take awhile before I look at how we'll set that up. It would certainly be something open for all to use, and to use for whatever purpose the community desires (be that RP or writing discussion) if we do do it.

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If you only have one channel, I'm not using it. I can already see the RP spilling over from it's forums into one channel and everyone bickering who was running their game first, or someone's hogging it.

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I think the easiest way to do this would be to register a channel on some irc server. Not that this would have to be a permanent thing...just temporary until something better is concieved...

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"ceratus" wrote:
I think the easiest way to do this would be to register a channel on some irc server. Not that this would have to be a permanent thing...just temporary until something better is concieved...

That would be my suggestion. No coding on Clueless' part, even. We could have a few - pw_roleplaying, pw_discussion, maybe a couple others for more specialised talks.

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"Clueless" wrote:
...and third because I'm right now working on other coding projects.
Oooh... Like what?

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I'm not sure multiple channels would be a great idea. I mean maybe split one off short term if there was an active session going or something. But I don't think this site has the mass of users that are hardcore enough to populate a bunch of IRC channels...

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"Evil Construct" wrote:
Oooh... Like what?

Short list?
Working on creating a cross referencing system for entries.
Revising forum layouts, revising forum code (b/c some of this is painful to look at and work with).
Revising issue based releases so we can handle SIGIS or other simular magizines.
Revising art releases to handle online comic style work. (B/c we'd like to eventually be able to host that sort of things as well.)
And some webpage maintence systems as well - I'm getting tired of having to hit the database to change page relations all the time.

That's the overarching projects - there's lots of little stuff along the way, if a simple idea is suggested that I can do in an hour or less, I'll often do it right then while I have the inspiration.

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But I don't think this site has the mass of users that are hardcore enough to populate a bunch of IRC channels...

I know Id be on there plenty. I have no life, just ask swan.
The only problem for some people might be differant time zones or whatnot.

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